By Philip Duke

As researchers carry their analytic abilities to endure on modern archaeological tourism, they locate that it truly is as a lot concerning the current because the earlier. Philip Duke’s examine of holiday makers watching on the continues to be of Bronze Age Crete highlights this nexus among earlier and current, among unique and mundane. utilizing own diaries, ethnographic interviews, web site guidebooks, and vacationer brochures, Duke is helping us comprehend the impression that archaeological websites, museums and the built earlier have on travelers’ view in their personal tradition, the way it legitimizes category inequality at domestic in addition to at the island of Crete, either Minoan and modern.

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A particularly famous piece is the much-reconstructed ivory acrobat figurine from Knossos (now in the Iraklio Museum). The multi-colored frescoes date to the Neopalatial period. edu 1997a). At Knossos, the most common themes on the frescoes are (1) bull leaping and catching, (2) boxing and wrestling, (3) heraldic griffins, and (4) processional scenes. Scenes of hunting and warfare are absent (ibid). Writing Systems Minoan Crete developed three writing systems (Bennet 2000). The earlier two of the three, Cretan hieroglyphics and Linear A, are still undeciphered.

The mountains are pocked with caves, some very small but others large enough to have served as the location of habitation sites or shrines (Rackham and Moody 1996:25). Plains remain important locations for arable production, as they did in prehistoric times. The largest is the Plain of Mesara, found on the southern part of the island. Crete also boasts high upland plains, the most significant being Omolos and Lasithi. Much of the island is covered by a type of limestone known to the islanders as kouskouras.

The succeeding middle Minoan period saw the introduction of the potter’s wheel. The polychrome Kamares Ware, which dates to MM I and MM II (the Old Palace period), is beautifully designed with a variety of external decorative motifs. It was exported as far afield as Egypt, Syria, and Cyprus. Naturalism is seen in the Floral Style and Marine Style pottery of the LM I period. ) and also showed a naturalistic style. The Mycenaean occupation of the island led to an increase in the manufacture of a standardized style of pottery; the pottery is nevertheless of a very high technical quality.

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